I have wondered a lot recently about this too. Why do wee seek out drama and controversy when our lives have become so comfortable and easy? Why when scanning (

I have wondered a lot recently about this too. Why do wee seek out drama and controversy when our lives have become so comfortable and easy? Why when scanning (social) media do we so easily fall for clickbait and ignore the intellectual topics? My theory is that comfortable people lack purpose. We intentionally seek drama and controversy because it's hard to bear the purposeless of life. Contentment is one of the hardest things to achieve. Instead of contentment, we want to join in on the twitter mob. We want to take action. We want to feel a sense of purpose, that overrides any careful analysis of the situation. We want to feel incensed because in the end we want to feel like we live in some historic moment where we fight deep injustices of the world. When in reality, we mostly don't have the stomach for the hard battles. We can join in the Twitter mob, cancel somebody needlessly, and feel a brief sense that we did something important. Anything to alleviate that sense of purposeless in life...